In Japan, yields for their 10-year government bond yield rose above 1%, its highest level in 12 years. The Australian 10 year bond yield is now at 4.32% and down -3 bps. The Kiwi dollar starts today up +¼c from yesterday at just on 61.5 USc. That all means our TWI-5 starts today over 70.7, which is up +15 bps from yesterday. The bitcoin price starts today at US$70,052 and up +3.4% from this time yesterday.
Rodger Fox – who has been synonymous with big band jazz in New Zealand – has died aged 71. The jazz legend founded the Rodger Fox Big Band in 1973 and toured extensively here and overseas, playing at international jazz festivals including Montreaux, Monterey and New Orleans. The trombonist was made a Companion of the New Zealand Order of Merit (CNZM) in 2022 for his services to music. ADVERTISEMENTReporter Simon Mercep reports on his contribution to New Zealand music. ADVERTISEMENT"He's always been, you know, hugely connected with the music that's being written here as well as, the sort of cutting-edge jazz music that's been produced and written overseas.
Tom Brady will give NFL audiences 'stuff we just die for' when he starts his $375million broadcasting contract with Fox next season. The seven-time Super Bowl winner will replace the highly-popular Greg Olsen at Fox and work alongside Kevin Burkhardt in the booth next season. Brady will be behind the microphone for the first time for the Cowboys-Browns game in Week 1. His Fox co-star Erin Andrews and her podcasting partner Clarissa Thompson were on The Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallon and gave a rousing endorsement of Brady. In an interview with USA Today, Olsen revealed that he met with Brady and reiterated the challenges of being in the broadcast booth.
I'm concerned at many levels. I'm concerned about my employees, my customers coming into the city, and as a father, I'm concerned about my kids," he said. "I'm concerned about our survival and crime and safety is just one of the reasons our businesses are dying," she said. The parking is expensive, the city isn't safe, there's cones everywhere, there's less happening in the city and people aren't working in the city as much." She said businesses in central Auckland would be watching closely when the government unveiled its budget on Thursday, 30 May.
Arrowtown’s quaint village atmosphere will be rocked to its foundations when high-flying Kiwi mettalers Devilskin stop by on Friday. The idea to include Arrowtown on the national 12-date ‘We Rise — 10th Anniversary Tour’ came from manager James Southgate, who recently brought The Feelers — another band he represents — to the Athenaeum Hall. Skulander: ‘‘I guess just sticking at it and making sure we are putting that time in and making sure we get our rehearsals in. ‘‘I’ve had one little practise with the band and I’m really excited about it,’’ she says. ’We Rise —10th Anniversary Tour’, Arrowtown Athenaeum Hall, Friday, May 31.
A Dunedin resident allegedly shot into his ceiling, prompting a near two hour standoff with the armed offenders squad. Concerns were raised by residents of the property about one of the boarders at the property, a 33-year-old man, and his behaviour throughout the afternoon. The man discharged a shotgun, shooting through the ceiling, and potentially once outside, Snr Sgt Bond said. Police and AOS went to the property and at about 10pm convinced the man to surrender. The man was charged with discharging a firearm in or near a dwelling house, intentional damage, threats to kill, unlawful possession of a firearm and unlawful possession of ammunition.
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Last year, in the lead up to the national election, Governor Orr said in May 2023 that he was “very confident” there would not be further interest rate hikes, stating the Reserve Bank had done enough in terms of rate rises. He was interviewed by
In a post-mortem of the incident, an unnamed blog author blamed the deletion on an internal tool used in 2023 to set up Unisuper's Google Cloud VMware Engine Private Cloud (GCVE). Furthermore, there was no warning to the customer because of the internal Google tool being used for the deployment of the Private Cloud." The accidental deletion of Unisuper's cloud instance made the news all over the world, and Google Cloud chief executive Thomas Kurian had to front up for the misconfiguration and apologise. Google Cloud was at pains to say the auto-deletion of Unisuper's cloud is not a systemic issue and that no other GCVE deployments are at risk. The system behaviour that set Unisuper's cloud to be automatically deleted has also been corrected, Google Cloud said.
Photo: Supplied / Lee Howell IDCStuff has revealed the logo and name of its new 6pm TV bulletin that will replace Newshub at 6 from July. Over the years it has had different names ranging from 3 National News, to 3 News, and recently Newshub. Several senior reporters and producers from Newshub will join Stuff journalists around the country to produce the programme. In April, Newshub's owners WBD announced it had made a deal with Stuff to create a replacement 6pm news bulletin. WBD had announced the closure of Newshub in March to curb losses it described as unsustainable.
The kids had got fishing rods from their grandparents for Christmas and decided to give them a go. Although Murphy's children had freshwater fishing licenses from Fish and Game, she didn't, and so the ranger served her with an infringement notice. The Murphy family were shocked to hear that parents can't help kids fish if they don't have licenses themselves. "I've never stolen, I've never done anything remotely illegal, now I have a diversion for casting a fishing line," Murphy said. We encourage the family to attend Fish and Game's children's instructional fishing event in the area in December."
Photo: Stuff/Juan Zarama PeriniA murder trial over the death of Karori man Rau Tongia has started in the High Court in Wellington. Shayde Weston, Breeze Hunt-Weston, Louise Kelly Hume and Pania Waaka have all pleaded not guilty to a charge of murder. Photo: Stuff/Juan Zarama PeriniHunt-Weston has also pleaded not guilty to two other charges. Photo: Stuff/Juan Zarama PeriniCarter said while the Crown did not condone Tongia's actions, he should not have died for them. Photo: Stuff/Juan Zarama PeriniPolice used GPS, CCTV, phone messages and data retained by Facebook and Google to track the accused on the night in question.
Stuff has revealed the name of its new 6pm TV bulletin, which is set to replace Newshub when it closes in early July. Stuff will provide an hour-long weekday bulletin and a 30-minute bulletin on Saturdays and Sundays. Samantha Hayes is set to host the news bulletin and will be joined by a host of her Newshub colleagues. Outgoing Newshub – and incoming Stuff – 6pm newsreader Samantha Hayes. Outgoing Warner Bros Discovery boss Glen Kyne told Media Insider that a Stuff team had been in the Newshub studio last week, observing the production of the 6pm bulletin.
“How many of you are even from the West Coast?” A rheumy-eyed old-timer who appeared to have seen too many West Coast winters, demanded of the protesters. That so many of the protesters were residents of the West Coast indicated how dramatically attitudes have changed in 30 years. It may be confidently predicted that the Resources Minister, and a great many other people, will be watching extremely closely to see how many people follow them. If similar environmental protests (against genetic engineering, against West Coast coal-mining) offer any guide, then well in excess of 30,000 marchers may be expected. Nor should it be forgotten that the coking-coal from New Zealand’s West Coast is highly prized by steel-makers around the world.
As well as having to spend an extra $100 a week on groceries, increases in the cost of things like insurance are hitting hard. "I've had to cancel my car insurance. Justin Lim, chief executive of comparison site Quashed, said the rate of increase in insurance premiums was accelerating. Premiums for insurance policies quoted on the site were up 40% for both comprehensive and third-party car insurance and up 25% for house and contents, year-on-year, he said. Consumer data found an increase of 38% in car insurance premiums between 2021 and October 2023.
